We invite you to meet vibrant, ambitious and fun people at events in Oakland or the San Francisco East Bay Area ranging from casual get together's to professional business networking events. We provide a place to meet new people and make connections while helping each other significantly grow our businesses through quality LEADS. The purpose of Oakland LEADS is to assist you in getting good referrals that will expand your business success. Our goal is very simple, to expand each member's busines …

We are a group of non-competing small business owners dedicated to networking with other like-minded professionals! Belonging to San Francisco Business Referral Network is like having dozens of sales people working for you. Members carry several copies of your business cards with them and when they meet someone who could use your products or services, they hand out your card and recommend yours. www.sfbusinessnetwork.com

The Bay Area Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Roundtable 2.0 Diversity is intended to focus and reframe how we integrate inclusiveness into our organizations. Diversity and Inclusion goes far beyond hiring and retention. It is the way we think about business strategy, our understanding of new consumer markets, our relationships with our community, and our ability to be the employer of choice to attract the best talent.

Creating a successful business starts with creating a successful mindset and treating yourself like a VIP client. Come and learn powerful tools to become magnetic to your ideal client and network with heart centered women entrepreneurs. The motto of this group is "We Thrive Together." This is a place where you can be yourself and get support for your heart centered business mission and create business friendships that will create prosperity for all! We meet at the beautiful Richmond Marina at Th …

Welcome to one of the 50 largest entrepreneur groups in the country! You do NOT need to live in the San Francisco Bay Area to join our club. We record our meetings and publish them on YouTube. Watch videos at http://www.youtube.com/tacticalexecution The Twitter hashtag for this group is #academy. The Academy has 3 main goals: (1) disseminate practical business development guidance for entrepreneurs & small business owners, (2) allow members to network and benefit from each other's expert …

Networking is the name of the game in the business world today, so why not make as many new connections as possible? It is no longer what you know; it's who you know. If you are interested in having brief 1:1 meetings with other professionals in order to do a quick assessment of who you'd like to connect with later for a deeper conversation, this is the place to start. True networking is not only about handshakes and the exchange of business cards. Does the other person with your business ca …

Our goal is to disrupt and change the typical way of networking, by creating a unique social environment for entrepreneurial-minded people from diverse industries, allowing them to connect with each other. Our events allow for building and fostering new connections, utilizing your distinctness and similarities as tools to create social capital and opportunities for you and people like you. Connecting People. Connecting Opportunities.

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

This is a group for business decision maker (CxO, VP), business division team leader, sales person, field worker, IT division professional, etc. who want to work more efficiently and learn how others collaborate in teams.

This Meetup group is tailored towards all Bay area Job Seekers, Hiring Managers, and Recruiters/HR Professionals that are either looking for a job, looking to hire someone, or looking to expand their current network. Our events are mostly geared towards connecting Job Seekers with those Hiring Managers and Recruiters that have matching openings. This group is a great place for all professionals (including those that are already working), to network and build connections, which can be utilized to …

Are you interested in the future of health technology? Are you already building it? Would you like to meet other like-minded people in Berkeley? Monsoon Company, a Berkeley-based software firm is hosting a series of networking events for all the cool people in Berkeley interested in empowering people to better manage their health. Come check us out!

My name is Mary Liu and I am the Organizer of this Meetup and I welcome you to the Premier Women's Business Network.  I, like yourself, am an entrepreneur and have been for the past 28 years so I know the challenges of trying to balance it all.  From a business, to your children, your husband or partner and everything else in between. I own several businesses including Empowered Women Speakers, a visibility consulting firm that provides resources for speakers, coaches, trainers, and entrepreneu …

Please join our monthly meeting using the Systemic Constellation Method. We are interested in building a group of people working on growing their businesses using this methodology. Quantum physics makes it clear that we exist in a field of possibility beyond linear time and local space. Through this field, the Systemic Constellation Method makes visible opportunities for growing our businesses and careers that we may not have previously considered. Through these workshops you will be able to : - …

Business and Social Networking Events for San Francisco Bay Area Entrepreneurs and Professionals to create new business and personal connections, find new clients, and identify business opportunities. Our members include successful entrepreneurs, startup founders, small business owners, business executives, technology gurus, attorneys, bankers, angel investors, real estate developers, franchise owners, local retail and restaurant owners, physicians, and other San Francisco Bay Area professionals …

Entrepreneurial moms meet and network with each other. Anyone who owns a business, wants to own one, is working on a creative venture, or wants to be around other business women in Oakland and surrounding neighborhoods can be a part of this Exchange. You do not have to be a business owner yet. This Exchange is about networking, helping each other through trials and tribulations, questions, problems, educating, and empowering each other. We will invite special speakers and some of our own members …

#1 Bay Area Network! A community for entrepreneurs, small business owners and investors. Have a great idea? Have capital and can't find a sound business? This #1 Community can help. We provide financing help, business plan development, consulting, debt financing, alternative financing, and opportunities to investors. Join San Francisco Entrepreneur Investor Network Meetup today! All Entrepreneurs & Investors are welcome. We will have a wide range of qualified entrepreneurs so you can share ideas …

The East Bay Series (EBS) takes place monthly (except for August and December) on a Wednesday evening at locations convenient to those who live and work in the East Bay, Tri-Valley and beyond in the Capital Corridor and Central Valley. The EBS theme is “real-life stories of entrepreneurial success,” reflecting how we use real-life experiences to give you practical recommendations with great take-away value. The format is a moderated panel discussion, typically with between three and five members …

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Raise Your Glass! Happy Hour Networking for Women Entrepreneurs For every women who believes that we are stronger together rather than apart. Who believes in tribal wisdom and the sharing of great stories. Who loves a great glass of wine (or two). Who believes that every woman has a right to find their inner warrior. Capture Power. Capture Love. Capture Wisdom. The Power is within You. This is for the woman in you. The woman who knows she has so much to offer the world. For the woman wh …

This community is for women/women business owners to come together; share information and resources; build relationships; network; and collaborate. It's a genuine opportunity to support each other in growing and maintaining successful lives and effective businesses.

East Bay Black Professionals is a diverse and dynamic group of professional people living in the East Bay but we welcome black professionals from all over the Bay Area. Join us! It’s is a great way to network with professionals in a social setting. We'll do everything from rock climbing and concerts to seminars and casual networking. We hold social networking events such as dinners, dancing, lounges, bowling, outdoor events, wine trips, and much more! We are professionals and we understand the v …

This Meet Up Community is for helping entrepreneurs and startups learn how to expand their creativity around business ideas, problem-solving, and team building to produce expansive results and competitive advantage. This group is being set up to offer a platform and space for creative coaching and guidance to help overcome challenges and learn new ways to be innovative- it makes having a problem, 'fun'. Did you know that most of us are trained automatically, through our education and societal sy …

Young Blacks of the Bay™ celebrates the "young, gifted and black" of the Bay Area through a variety of events that won't break the bank. Experience local culture, friendship, and networking with open-minded professionals in their twenties (21+) and thirties. YBB consists of people who want to make new friends, business connections, and are curious about Bay Area culture. Furthermore, we welcome people of all ethnic backgrounds, ages, sexual orientations, religions, etc. For more details about th …

Classy, BlackGirl the Professional Network's mission is to encourage women to subscribe to a more upscale set of social and professional standards through networking, socializing and lifestyle experiences in a sisterly and fun environment! We Host amazing mixers, social outings, educational seminars and professional coaching solutions for Black Women in Business!

Top 3 Reasons to join ASWA East Bay: Build a REAL Network! Facebook and Linkedin are great ways of keeping track of the contacts you already know. However, they are not a great way to build a larger circle of powerful women who can help you in your career and life. ASWA is a growing network of East Bay Accounting and Finance Women who want to help each other and learn from each other. Learn something New! Every single meeting has an informational topic with a speaker. Even when the topic has be …

Welcome! Bay Area Fashion Meetup connects locals who love fashion, great style, and shopping through a wide variety of fun events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Join us to make new friends, network, experience local culture, and have FUN with like-minded people! Upcoming meetups will include: Fashion shows Bargain shopping excursions Networking happy hours DIY and crafting workshops Trunk shows Fashion Week events Clothing exchanges and much more! We will meet at least once per month. Know of …

"The DaVinci Institute: Where Great Ideas Happen" The DaVinci Institute produces a number of unique events ranging from the two monthly networking events - the Night with a Futurist, and the Startup Junkie Underground - to a series of Boot Camps and Crash Courses primarily designed around serving the needs of businesses and entrepreneurs. Our events feature some of the most talented thinkers and seasoned veterans who have fundamentally changed the business landscape with the sheer weight of the …

Calling all tech entrepreneurs, founders, CxOs, investors and leaders in the South Marin area! South Marin DrinkTank is  the latest off-shoot of the highly successful DrinkTank series of tech meet-ups run in London, New York and San Francisco by Huddle and its partners. This latest event is brought to you by Huddle (Alastair Mitchell, CEO & Founder) and Ping Identity (Mike Desai, VP Global Channels & Business  Development) – both of whom are new arrivals to Tiburon! The event is a high quality, …